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Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. -- Conrad Burns
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom. -- John Dewey
We should have A-levels in vocational subjects. -- James Dyson
If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development. -- Tom Golisano
The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training. -- Pallam Raju
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it. -- Damien Chazelle
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. -- Bobby Scott
If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education. -- Michael Gurian
With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training. -- John M. McHugh
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. -- Philip Greenspun
Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access to ongoing vocational and job training to ensure their skills remain as relevant as possible to African organizations. -- Richard Attias
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education. -- Pankaj Mishra
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K. -- Ben Schnetzer
When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational! -- Brian Houston
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training. -- Pallam Raju
Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do. -- Lewis E. Lawes
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Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. -- Edward Blishen
If vocational holiness is to be anything more than a pious wish, pastors must dive to the ocean depths of prayer. -- Eugene H. Peterson
I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." -- Phyllis Diller
As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all! -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so. -- Max Anders
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. -- Alan Kay
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies. -- Neil Postman
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. -- Aldous Huxley
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error. -- Dennis Miller
Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers. -- Joe Nichols
A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different. -- Stephen Fry
At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today. -- Eric Ripert

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